Fire Damper Testing at the UK’s Tallest Residential Building
Recently, we undertook a challenging yet rewarding project: conducting fire damper testing at the tallest residential building in the UK
Am I at risk of indoor air pollution at work?
It is possible for indoor working areas including offices to be affected by air pollution. Depending on the job some work environments may expose you to higher levels of pollution than others, certainly more than you would experience at home. In a workplace...
Air Quality In Schools Improved With Air Ventilation System Cleaning
Indoor air quality can be worse than outdoor air quality due to the lack of ventilation. Due to this it is important to make sure there is an understanding of the serious health impacts poor air quality has, particularly with children and the elderly as they are the...
Importance of Clean Air In Schools And Clean Air Ventilation System Cleaning
Clean Air In Schools Clean air is important in every building, but mostly so in places of education. Ensuring there is clean air in schools is important for a number of reasons and has a knock on effect to children's education and learning. What makes air dirty? Air...
Why Is Fire Damper Testing Necessary?
What do fire dampers do? Fire dampers are a special type of safety device that are found in ducts. They are designed to close automatically if it detects heat, this prevents flames from travelling easily through the ducting and spreading throughout the building....
What causes air pollution and how can you stay safe?
What causes air pollution? Air pollution is created by solid and liquid particles alongside certain gases that can be found in the air. The particles and gases are created by car and truck exhaust, factories, dust, pollen, mould spores, volcanoes and wildfires. The...
The Importance Of Clean Air
As offices reopen and businesses start to return to a bit of normality, the virus is still a risk to our health. Although businesses are putting lots of measures in place to protect staff and customers from spreading COVID, there are still many employees who are...
COVID – 19 And The Importance Of Air Ventilation System Cleaning
It is the law to ensure that there is a appropriate supply of clean, fresh air in workplaces, communal buildings and places of education. This has not changed during the pandemic but has become even more essential than before. When someone with the virus coughs or...
Clean Air Auditing
Air ventilation systems require annual auditing to ensure systems remain compliant with the Health and Safety at Work Act 1974. Managing air ventilation systems will improve the health of staff in the workplace and prevent the system wasting valuable energy. Auditing...
Fire Damper Testing – The Legislation
Fire damper testing is regulated by The Management of Health & Safety at Work Regulations 1999 and The Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005. These simply state that fire dampers must be installed properly throughout mechanical air ventilation system....
Air Ventilation System Cleaning – Is it necessary?
Air Ventilation System Cleaning is not only required by the health and safety at work act 1974, but air ventilation systems can also often build up with deposits of lint and dirt, even if your AHU’s have filters! When particulate and lint build up in a system this not...
Fire Damper Testing
Due to COVID-19, businesses are re-evaluating their cleaning and safety procedures. This strange time has highlighted where improvements can be made to protect staff and visitors not just from hygiene risks but also from the risk of fires. Duct work fire dampers are...
Be ready for the corona virus in your business
Inform your staff on how it is best to protect themselves. Keep staff safe by putting in place safety measures such as hand washing stations and limiting travel. Be alert and encourage those showing symptoms to self isolate. Follow these steps to protect yourself and...
Laundry Duct Cleaning Experts
Preventing fires in laundry ducting Hotel laundry extract systems can become highly flammable if they are left to build up with lint. With the lint often being extremely hot from where the tumble dryer has been in use this can easily spark a fire which would rapidly...
Air Pollution In Buildings
In recent news reports the British heart foundation have stated that air pollution must be declared "a public health emergency". Currently we do not have a choice over the air we breathe in our cities, but we do have a choice over the air we breathe in our buildings....
Fire Damper Testing and Compliance
It is important to regularly test and maintain your fire dampers so they operate correctly in the event of a fire. What are the appropriate testing procedures? The BS 9999 was updated in January 2017 to state that fire dampers must be tested immediately after...
Air Ventilation System Cleaning Improves Londoners Health
Air Ventilation Cleaning has positive impact on our health 24 Seven's air ventilation cleaning services has an aim - to improve the health of people working within cities. When ventilation systems are left without proper maintenance or regular cleaning a build up of...
Sick Building Syndrome: How poor air ventilation systems affect the workplace
What is Sick Building Syndrome? According to the National Health Service (NHS), “Sick building syndrome (often referred to as SBS) is the name for symptoms you only get whilst in a particular building, such as an office”. SBS isn’t namely an illness or even in fact a...
